KARACHI: The CT Scan and MRI machines of major Karachi based hospitals have been lying out of order since several years due to sheer negligence of Sindh health department and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), the hospital sources told PPI Saturday.
The major diagnostic machines at big hospitals of Karachi city, including Dr Ruth Phafu Civil Hospital (CHK), Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (SMBB) Institute of Trauma, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), Sindh Government Lyari General Hospital, Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad and National Institute of Child Health (NICH) are faulty.
Sources at CHK told PPI that the visiting and indoor patients were facing grave hardships at Civil Hospital Karachi as CT scan and MRI machine were lying out of order since two years. The CHK is a Sindh’s largest teaching hospital where big number of patients was brought every day from different areas of Karachi and rest of Sindh, some of them need diagnostic services such as angiography, CT scan and MRI.
Similarly, visiting patients are facing grave inconvenience at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) as two major diagnostic machines are also not functioning since several months in Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s this hospital.
The CT scan machines are also not operating in Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (SMBB) Institute of Trauma, Lyari General Hospital Karachi and Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad. The sole MRI machine of National Institute of Child Health (NICH) is also non-functional since one and half years. The children are shifted to private diagnostic lab for tests.
Medical Superintendent, Lyari General Hospital, Dr Agha Zubair, while talking to PPI, confirmed that CT scan machine was not operating before his joining as MS. He informed that formal request had been sent to authorities concerned for release of funds for repairing of out of order equipment.